I don’t think it is irrelevant, I think it shows that background does not preclude people from dedicating them selves to causes they believe in. And that ideological purity tests based in social background are counter productive.

Everyone forgets that Che was a collage educated upper middle class yuppie who got radicalized on a road trip while trying to “find him self”

So, like, this is basically his crowd when he was younger.

Ezra Klein being on the list is so fucking funny. Like, you telling me the “abundance” guy associates with the “techno monarchy” guy? Shocked I tell you, that the guy who’s proposed ideological concept basically just boiled down to “what if we deregulated stuff further to make economy good?” Is deeply tied to tech oligarchs.

I’d be a little surprised if this got past the current PM.

The laws as written are basically unenforceable. The main point of them is to shift the burden of age verification checks off of websites and on to OS providers. And the main point of the age verification stuff was to shift the public discussion around how manipulative social media “suggested” or “for you” algorithms cook people’s brains when trying to maximize engagement by pretending it’s only a problem for children.

Ultimately though, the failure to actually enforce these laws, and the failure to address the obvious issue will just lead to continued anger and another public call for regulation against brain cooking business practices at big tech companies.